صیچانجیل
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”) + ـجیل (-cil).
Noun
صیچانجیل • (sıçancıl)
- kite, a medium-sized bird of prey in the genus Milvus
- Synonym: چایلاق (çaylak)
Descendants
- Turkish: sıçancıl
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sıçancıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4647
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صیچانجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198